PUBLISHER: AURUM PRESS LTD., 2011
Chosen
as one of The Independent’s Top 10 Film Books of 2011
Biography of the popular
comic actor who starred in the memorable film comedies Private’s
Progress, I’m Alright Jack, School for Scoundrels
and the TV series The World of Wooster and Lord Peter Wimsey. He was a public favourite right up to his death in 2010, appearing in
the popular Sunday night ITV drama The Royal.
Research for the book
included interviews with the late Susannah York, Lucy Boulting,
Fenella Fielding, Derek Fowlds, Gerald Harper, David Robb, Janette
Scott and Nicholas Parsons, who also wrote the foreword.
"A lovingly detailed,
and long overdue, portrait of a much loved entertainer who had a
remarkable career that spanned over sixty years." Dick
Fiddy, media historian
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